[Arkcon]

As I recall, you can only create a star where there wasn't one already.

The game explanation was that once you created one star from gases in the system, there weren't any left to make another.

The real reason may be to prevent just the exploit you suggested.

Edit:
1). What would be cool would be to use the map editor to make a system with a dozen stars in a Kempler Rosette (I have no idea what that is, heard it on Star Trek) A crystaline race would really want to colonize that system -- what sort of drawback would such a system have -- massive random movement? can a system have a higher chance of events?

2). Ed, that avatar is fantastic. The glowing eyes of Mr. Fibble really freaked out a co-worker here.

[ December 12, 2002, 20:12: Message edited by: Arkcon ]